Money and Making It, Not Getting It: On Value

By iFunnyRefugee · 2026-09-24 04:32:59

Those who would do immoral things like robbery or theft to get money are seen today as desperate and wrong but somehow also justified. Simultaneously, those who figured out how to provide what people want at a price acceptable to a majority of consumers and organize people to make that happen while compensating the workers and themselves, is wrong.

So it follows within this logic, getting money is right and making money is wrong. Of course they won't condemn the business owner who has as much or a little more than them, at least today that statement is true.

The mental mechanism through which a majority of people throughout history understand the concept of value has been corrupted since the industrial evolution took place, more specifically when the division of labor took off.

To those under this ideal, who don't understand the difference between making money and getting it, obviously the rich would automatically be wrong. But there is a stark difference in making money vs getting money and that must be understood. People's misunderstanding of this difference is crucial to how value is dealt with.

The division of labor is a interesting thing, we as humans value so many things but we managed to figure out a medium to exchange value with to make it more efficient, but in doing that many people lost the original meaning of it. We see coins or paper as inherently valuable now, before it was wheat, spices, meat, eggs, raw metal, etc.

For whatever reason many believe they are entitled to set prices, set wages, healthcare, without considering how these things are produced at all. This can be explained by a crucial misunderstanding of value.

To make value is to labor in some way, to provide a product or service people want. To get money is to not make it, the only way to achieve getting money vs making it is through taking it from those who have made it. Robbery, theft, fraud, coercion, etc.